Note: from 7 XII 1900

7/XII 00 [Munich].
Dear P. B.,

Forgive me for not answering you in Baynova's letter*): illness prevented it. But now, having consulted with V[era] Ivanovna Zasulich, I see that the situation is very serious: a foreign chronicle is necessary, the newspaper's first sheet is already being printed, the second is ready except for the chronicle. The space for the chronicle is supposed to be approximately 26,000 characters*). In the worst case we will cut something else.

Please therefore send right away what you have and what you can.

I shall await your answer impatiently.

Address: Herrn Georg Rittmeyer.
Kaiserstrasse 53, O. München
(inside: für Meyer.)

I squeeze your hand firmly.
Your Petroff.

I am very sorry to press you like this.
But what is to be done?
I hope that, just as with the article on L[ibknecht], you will manage with this too.

1) Baynova — apparently "Dimka," Inna Germogenovna Smidovich-Leman, also Zagorskaya, secretary of the editorial board of Iskra before the arrival of N. K. Krupskaya.

*) Rakovsky's article — in the first issue of Iskra: "The International Socialist Congress in Paris."

19.
V. I. LENIN — P. B. AXELROD.

*) Together with Rakovsky's article8), to which approximately 10,000 characters were allotted.